Ibert: Macbeth • Golgotha • Don Quichotte

Click Here for the complete Naxos Film Music Classic Series "Parisian-born composer Jacques Ibert, a winner of the Prix de Rome at the Paris Conservatoire, was for a number of years director of the French Academy in Rome and the Paris Opéra Comique. Versatile and prolific, he wrote six operas, seven ballets and music for the theatre, cinema and radio. In addition there is a dramatic cantata, several orchestral and concertante works, vocal, chamber music and instrumental works, all equally beautifully crafted, with particularly idiomatic handling of wind instruments. Ibert is best known for a handful of orchestral and chamber works that have endured in the repertoire. The works most likely to be encountered are the Escales for orchestra (1922), Divertissement, for chamber orchestra (1928), the symphonic poem La Ballade de la geôle de Reading (1920) and the Flute concerto (1934). Music writer David Ewen has stated that Ibert’s scores, "usually combine classical forms with bright co